Palace Hotel ho Chi Minh

Hanoi: Sightseeing with a Local Guide; water puppets performance; visit Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Ho Chi Minh Museum, Presidential Palace, and Temple of Literature; take a "cyclo" ride through the Old Quarter Halong Bay: Overnight ...

... liking but the rest loved the food very much especially Daddy AY and Princess SR! 2100: Back at hotel for early rest. See Rex Hotel's review & photos: ...

... war. It turned out to be far more complicated than we had first thought. The palace was renamed the Reunification Palace after Ho Chi Minh (leader of Northern Vietnam) conquered the South. To begin with we were very confused who were the communists and ...

... are an old school southerner it is still referred to as Saigon, In the north it is referred to as Ho Chi Minh, after Ho Chi Minh himself of course. This city has a population of about 6 million. There are over 3.2million motorbikes and scooters ...

... you're wondering why this entry refers to Saigon, it's because that's what the Southerners refer to it as. The name Ho Chi Minh comes from the North and although reunification occurred long ago, there are still subtle issues between Northerners and ...

... in Ho Chi Minh City on time on Tuesday after two lovely flights on Singapore Air from Kolkata to Singapore and Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City. Ever since I began planning my trip, I was confused by what to call the city. The original name of the city ...

... crater nearby made by a B52. It was huge. I never expected something like that to look so big. Our bus ride back to Ho Chi Minh took longer than expected because a few people from our group had opted to take a boat ride back to the city, but their ...

... got through in about 15 minutes without as much as a hiccup, and we were in Vietnam! It took another three hours to get to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), but you could tell you were in the city as soon we entered.  I have never seen so many motorbikes in ...

... mad. Fredag blev vi på hotellet om formiddagen og så Cartoon Network i fjernsynet. Ved 12 tiden tog vi en taxa til Cholon, Ho Chi Minh Citys kinesiske kvarter. Her så vi flere små templer, bla. et hvor de lokale kvinder kom for at bede for deres ...

... which greatly amused us and gave us another opportunity to snap some funny looking people attempting the aerobics. We both really like Ho Chi Minh City its has a really nice feel to it, busy, hectic, mad but not so far removed from the western world and ...

... Museum (not much of a gallery however they did showcase some interesting Vietnamese artists), Notre Dame Cathedral, Hotel de Ville and Bac Ho Monument (Ho Chi Minh), the Opera House, Saigon Centre (HCMC’s First Shopping Mall). To some extent, HCMC ...

At the end of our boat trip, we were picked up by our next guide, Tam. He was to take us to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. It is also known as HCM City, or HCMC. It was a bit strange - most of the people here call it Ho Chi Minh City, but as ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY JUNE!!!!!! Ho Chi Minh is a bit of a mental city. We arrived at 6am on 28th May and the only thing we wanted to do after yet another 12hours on a sleeper bus was get into a proper bed. After a bit of bartering and nearly getting ...

After the beautiful countryside of Dalat we took a 7 hour bus ride to Ho Chi Minh City, or as everyone else apart from politicians call it, Saigon. The journey was extremely long and it felt worse than any of the journeys we've done before, even the 16 ...

... nbsp;              We then went up the roof top of Rex Hotel to get a nice view of Ho Chi Minh, then off we drove to the War Museum which was really a depressing site, not surprising why it is oh so quiet ...

... to Ho Chi Minh City I finally arrived at 13:00 pm. I took a taxi to Bui Vien Street which is the backpackers area of Ho Chi Minh City. After a shower I walked to the city center and had a lunch at the famous Kim's Cafe. There is a lot of traffic and the ...

... just one problem we now had to wait 3 hours for the fireworks and we were locked in by millions of people (they say Ho Chi Minh city has 5 million people and I reckon they were all crammed onto the riverfront on this evening). So having sat tight for 3 ...

... chill and have a quite breakfast. After breakfast we headed out to see two of main sites that Ho Chi Minh has to offer - the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum. First stop was the Reunification Palace, a rather disappointing start as unlike the ...

... chill and have a quite breakfast. After breakfast we headed out to see two of main sites that Ho Chi Minh has to offer - the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum. First stop was the Reunification Palace, a rather disappointing start as unlike the ...

... It was so nice to stay somewhere clean (no bed bugs!) and quiet (and a super airconditioner!). We spent the first full day in Ho Chi Minh doing a massive walking tour of the city.  We basically picked out a few sites on the tourist map and decided to ...

(Allie) After our flight debacle with Jetstar we flew to Ho Chi Minh with Vietnam Airlines who welcomed (a good half an hour later than scheduled) aboard their plane with 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas' playing in the background which made me ...